Not moving with the times

for Woodovis because i booked within 6 weeks of arrival i had to pay the full whack Ouch!!! but they do provide insurance if required to get your money back if no show, like to kee3p it simple, but weather report not all bad so looking forward to it.
 

I few years back I was trying to decide between sites. The one I was going to choose waned full payment up front. I dropped them an e-mail to explain why I had chosen the other site. Response was 'we don't have any option with online booking but if you phone we can just take a deposit until you arrive. Daft 

ET, You can always take a chance and just turn up! Perhaps not so easy with a caravan.

peedee

Unless like me you sit outside reading the Guardian in the sunshine! Easier now because it is a more manageable size. The real problem is that fewer and fewer sites are selling newspapers of any variety because they find it difficult to find newsagents willing to deliver to site and do so reliably or so I am told.

David

Ah!!! i phoned them because i knew which pitch i wanted, which wasnt available but when i mentioned i would stay for 1 month it suddenly became available, its good to talk 

Me too. I’ve had occasion to cancel at the last minute, even got to the stage when I received a letter! However, it wasn’t me being irresponsible, but dealing with an elderly mother with dementia who threw my plans into chaos on a regular basis. I’d have felt happier losing a deposit rather than receiving warning letters with all the ‘naughty’ inferences that conveys. I think paying up front or paying a deposit indicates clear intent as opposed to might, might not stick with this arrangement.

I think the demand for newspapers is lessening and I'm like WTG, I have noticed what pre-ordered papers are on the counter in reception!  Alas not now Covid has reared it's head, no orders being taken. Many also read them on line I think?

As for cancelling bookings, I've just done it under the 72 hour "rule" (due to engine problems in the M/H.)  I ticked the box for accident/breakdown as in the past couple of years I've had to tick the box for illness. Deposit or no deposit I had no option. I don't cancel without a good reason, I expect some do but I'm sure most want to stick to plans made.

I would agree with the comments on the website, it is painfully slow and why are there no replies on members issues posted here, from a club representative.It would also be nice to have interesting letters in the magazine instead of the heavily "sanitised" published ones

David, you newspaper concerns sum up the original question posed by the OP.

The reason you struggle to get newspapers is that there is no economic model whereby the vendor of the newspaper can make money by selling so few newspapers due to the changing demographic of its audience. As newspaper readers die the next generation do not read newspapers so newsprint is in terminal decline of about 10% per year. 

The ones that survive will have a really good digital offering and learn how to monetize their content which is appropriate to their audience. 

This applies to all institutions including the club, the only thing that is changing is the rate of change which is getting faster.

The problem with that theory is that a newspaper can be digitised, that is it's form can be changed from paper to a digital copy and people will buy it.

At the end of the day the club sells pitches and however much I try I cannot imagine how a digital copy of a club site can be made and made appealing?

You do keep mentioning the website side of things but really it is merely a means to getting your LV on a pitch. And it would appear from all the threads about not being to get a pitch atm that it is even doing this very well indeed?

but newspapers can be made into a e-format while campsites cannot. So I'm not sure of the relevance of that to the club?

CT is only a means to an end, and that end is to book a club site. That's what people want and do so in large numbers.